Definition of Infectiousness

1. n. The quality of being infectious.

Definition of Infectiousness

1. Noun. The state or condition of being infectious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Infectiousness

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Medical Definition of Infectiousness

1. The state or quality of being infectious. Synonym: infectiosity. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infectiousness

infectious necrotic hepatitis of sheep
infectious ophthalmia
infectious pancreatic necrosis virus
infectious papilloma of cattle
infectious period
infectious plasmid
infectious polyneuritis
infectious porcine encephalomyelitis
infectious porcine encephalomyelitis virus
infectious serositis
infectious sinusitis of turkeys
infectious synovitis
infectious warts
infectiously
infectiousness
infective
infective agent
infective embolism
infective endocarditis
infective jaundice
infective thrombus
infectiveness
infectives
infectivities
infectivity
infector
infectors
infects
infecund

Literary usage of Infectiousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The True Science of Living: Result of Investigations Made for the Trustees by Edward Hooker Dewey, George Frederick Pentecost, Harold Clarence Ernst, Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture (1895)
"... herewith the report of the work done under your auspices, upon the question of the infectiousness of the milk from cows affected with tuberculosis. ..."

2. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1904)
"ON THE Infectiousness OF THE LATE STAGE OF THE SKIN LESION IN VARIOLA. ... Our knowledge of the infectiousness of the crust, then, seems to rest upon the ..."

3. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1886)
"Record) Infectiousness of Non-bacillary Phthisis.—Among the facts which must still be explained before Koch's bacillus can be unequivocally accepted as the ..."

4. Gonorrhoea: Being the Translation of Blenorrhoea of the Sexual Organs and by Ernst Finger (1894)
"Gos- selin denies the infectiousness, while Milton reports several cases of infection by the secretion of ... He proved that the infectiousness of chronic ..."

5. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Persistent infectiousness from the bowel is directly attributable to an infected gall-bladder. 4. All patients who have suffered from a complicating ..."

6. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"... but not their infectiousness. Therefore a persistent Wassermann is not a contraindication to marriage if the above requirements have been fulfilled. ..."

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